The Punishments Of Hell
Desnos, Robert / Dumas, Marie-Claire / Lehrer, Natasha
Written in early 1922, this is the first prose work by Surrealist poet and exemplary practitioner of automatic writing Robert Desnos (preceding Mourning for Mourning and Liberty or Love!, also published by Atlas Press).Its protagonists are swept into violent journeys through Paris by train and steamship, fabulous events consume their everyday lives, oracles spout nonsense or wisdom. All of Desnos' friends in the Paris Dada movement--André Bret...